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Sustainable machining should be defined in the context of sustainability and sustainable manufacturing. The entry on “sustainability” states that sustainability implies that something can be sustained, i.e., continued at that level, in principle indefinitely. “Sustainable manufacturing” is defined as the creation of manufactured products that use processes that are nonpolluting, conserve energy and natural resources, and are economically sound and safe for employees, communities, and consumers, including the manufacturing of sustainable products and the sustainable manufacturing of all products. Thus, applied to machining, sustainable machining can be defined as the manufacture of products (components, etc.) by a subtractive process based on cutting (material removal by the cutting action of a tool usually with a machine tool to create surfaces and features) in a way that is nonpolluting, minimizes and conserves...
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Dornfeld, D. (2019). Sustainability of Machining. In: Chatti, S., Laperrière, L., Reinhart, G., Tolio, T. (eds) CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53120-4_6702
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